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On this day, Columbus had discovered America. It is believed that Columbus had been actually looking for india, so when he saw the Native americans there, he had called them indians.
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On this day, 104 men and women landed in the new world and made a colony in what is now Jamestown, Virginia. Jamestown was the first official English colony made in the new world.
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The first representative assembly in America, meets for hte first time in virginia.
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The Plymouth Colony is established by the Pilgrims.
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The English Seize New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it to New York
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The Britain and British colonies switch their calenders, that's about it
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The French and Indian war had begun.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed to stop the ongoing 9 year war known to us as the French and Indian War
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The Stamp Act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the cost of defending the large British empire, who were still taxing them.
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The townshend acts were 4 seperate acts which were passed by the british to assert authority over the colonies.
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The Boston Massacre was when a british patrol group was threatened at by a mob and the soliders shot and killed 5 civilians. Whether this was a direct order or a misfire or on purpose defying their "leader" is still unknown.
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The Boston Tea Party was when the colonists got sick of the taxes put on tea and the monopoly of the East India Company, a group of Bostonians boarded a ship and dumbed 10,000 pound worth of tea into Boston Harbor.
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These were another series of acts signed in retaliation to the resistance of british rule in the winter
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This congress was called in response to the intolerable acts.
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On this day, Patrick Henry gave his famous speech about "Give me Liberty or Give me Death"
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On this night, Paul Revere "Rode" to Lexington to warn of the approaching British troops and that they were planning to seize the colonial armory in Concord.
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Despite being called the battle of bunker hill, majority of the fight took place on breed's hill. The british outnumbered the americans by a long shot as well.
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published this month as a 50-page pamphlet, this pamphlet was what paved the way for the declaration of independence.
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